Poetry and Popular Protest: Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline Controversy

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by  John Gardner (auth.)

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Poetry and Popular Protest
Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen
Caroline Controversy
John Gardner
Principal Lecturer in English, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
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Contents
List Of Illustrations x
List Of Abbreviations xi
Acknowledgements xii
Principal Players xiv
Introduction: ‘The Radical Ladder’ 1
Part I: Peterloo 11
1 Peterloo 13
2 Myth-m aking: Samuel Bamford and Peterloo 21
3 William Hone’s Peterloo 33
4 Shelley: Doggerel and Dialectics 72
Part II: The Cato Street Conspiracy 103
5 The Cato Street Tragedy 105
6 Charles Lamb and the Spy System 120
7 Byron, Cato Street and Marino Faliero 130
Part III: The Queen Caroline Controversy 157
8 Introducing the Players 159
9 Byron and the Loyalists 183
10 Shelley and the Radicals 195
Conclusion 218
Notes 226
Select Bibliography 249
Index 262
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